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30 unusual facts about "Tex" McCrary


Adam 'Tex' Davis

He is most famous for writing the scripts for "Spring Break Lawyer" and Just Friends.

Are You Ready for Freddy?

allmusic's Eugene Chadbourne gave the disc high praise (4 stars of a possible 5), and said that Fender "can take on elements as disparate as Doris Day and Ray Charles and make a listener forget either of these icons even exist." He compared the playing on the record to "an incredibly hip, funky Tex-Mex band hired to play at a wedding."

Beasts of Bourbon

In September 1996, Beasts of Bourbon reformed with Hooper, Jones, Perkins and Pola joined by former Divinyls' member Charlie Owen – also in Tex, Don and Charlie with Perkins – on guitar.

Connecticut State Police

Other garments are issued such as waist length Gore-Tex jackets, longer knee length Gore-Tex parka jackets for severe weather and pull over wool knit sweaters.

Fantasia-class cruise ship

MSC Fantasia and MSC Splendida have a 16,000-ft2(1,500-m2) spa facility, four swimming pools, a Tex-Mex restaurant, a 1,700-seater showlounge, a Mini golf course, a Tennis/Basketball court.

Fly fishing tackle

Contemporary waders are either made of breathable Gore-Tex or neoprene.

Hiking boot

Most hiking boots are constructed of leather, sometimes with a breathable waterproof lining, such as Gore-Tex.

Indagationes Mathematicae

The typesetting, including mathematical functions, was chosen by Donald Knuth as one of three examples of typesetting quality when he designed the TeX digital typesetting software from 1978.

Jim Hefferon

In 1999 Jim became one of the core maintainers of the TeX archive CTAN.

John Bickerton

He won the 1994 Gore-Tex Challenge on his way to 6th on the season ending money list, which gave him automatic promotion to the European Tour for 1995.

Keswick Mountain Festival

According to The Observer, the festival is "one of the few places on the planet where Gore-Tex and gaiters might actually help you to pull".

Lark Street

Lark Street has a variety of restaurants and eateries, including Tex-Mex, Greek, Thai, Indian, Hunan, Italian and Japanese restaurants.

Nacho King!

Nacho King! (corporate name Emyth, Inc.) is the largest Tex-Mex food manufacturer in the Philippines.

Peripheral vascular disease

Generally, the saphenous vein is used, although artificial (Gore-Tex) material is often used for large tracts when the veins are of lesser quality.

Pete Dexter

Dexter was roughed up at that meeting and later returned with his friend heavyweight prizefighter Randall "Tex" Cobb.

Raincoat

Modern raincoats are often constructed of breathable, waterproof fabrics such as Gore-Tex or Tyvek and coated nylons.

Segregation academies

Runyon v. McCrary (1976): U.S. Supreme Court affirms private schools may not discriminate due to race based on 42 U.S.C. 1981.

Simms Fishing Products

Shortly after K.C. Walsh acquired the company and moved it to Bozeman, Simms introduced a line of breathable waders using Gore-Tex.

Swedish Military Uniform

The M90 uniform has been undergoing advanced research and development lately, and it is possible that new materials such as Gore-Tex and Kevlar will be used in the future to further strengthen and adapt the uniform for special conditions.

TeX

TeXShop for Apple Mac OS X, TeXworks for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and MS Windows, and WinShell for MS Windows are similar tools and provide an integrated development environment (IDE) for working with LaTeX or TeX.

This was rejected because at the time "TEX" (all caps) was registered by Honeywell for the "Text EXecutive" text processing system.

Tex-Mex cuisine in Houston

In 1972 Diana Kennedy released the book The Cuisines of Mexico, which detailed food across Mexico from different socioeconomic and ethnic groups.

Tex, Don and Charlie

Tex, Don and Charlie is an Australian super group formed by Tex Perkins from The Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon and others, Don Walker from Cold Chisel and widely respected guitarist Charlie Owen.

TeXShop

TeXShop requires an existing TeX installation and is currently bundled with the MacTeX distribution.

Version 2.28 was released on 7 November 2009 as part of the TeX Live 2009 release of MacTeX.

Also, with version 1.35 TeXShop was extended with XeTeX support.

Starting with version 2.18, TeXShop has included support for SyncTeX.

The Last Wave of Summer

Walker, who had recently used songs for Moss's Petrolhead, Tex, Don and Charlie's Sad but True, and his own solo debut, felt he had little to offer.

Tricuspid atresia

modified Blalock-Taussig shunt to maintain pulmonary blood flow by placing a Gore-Tex conduit between the subclavian artery and the pulmonary artery.

U.S. Army M-1943 Uniform

It is no longer used for combat operations having been superseded by the Gen II and Gen III Gore-Tex parkas.


Backbiter

Singer/guitarist Jonathan Hall had been playing in Texorcist (the Los Angeles band with Linda "Texacala" Jones, formerly of Tex and the Horseheads, not the Texas band of the same name) and the Angry Samoans with and bassist Heath Seifert.

Bootable business card

The first version of the LNX-BBC that was independent from Linuxcare was 1.618 (a number suggested by team member Seth Schoen, an approximation of the golden ratio, or phi (φ), and a tribute to Donald Knuth who uses successively more precise approximations of π for versioning his TeX typesetting system).

Charles Kynard

Kynard first played piano then switched to organ and led a trio in Kansas City including Tex Johnson (flute, sax) and Leroy Anderson (drums).

Eric Dane

His made-for-television film credits included two biopics, Serving in Silence (about Margarethe Cammermeyer's experiences in the military), and Helter Skelter, in which he portrayed Charles "Tex" Watson, a member of the Manson family.

Fabio Civitelli

His own interpretation of the character, Tex, respects the old tradition set by Aurelio Galleppini while being modern and pleasant.

Four Feather Falls

The four feathers of the title refers to four magical feathers given to Tex by the Indian chief Kalamakooya as a reward for saving his grandson: two allowed Tex's guns to swivel and fire without being touched whenever he was in danger, and two conferred the power of speech on Tex's horse and dog.

Giltedge

Tex also competed four years later at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, as part of the bronze medal team.

Gustafi

The band is known for their eclectic style which combines Istrian folk music and rock, along with blues and Tex-Mex influences.

History of sentence spacing

However, the reason Donald Knuth gave for creating the TeX typesetting system was his dismay on receiving the proofs of a new edition of his book The Art of Computer Programming at the unreadability of the then new close-fitted phototypesetting technology, which he described as "awful" due to its "poor spacing".

Jealous Heart

British duo the Tanner Sisters - Frances and Stella - recorded "Jealous Heart" in London 14 October 1949; this version - which retained the lyrics as recorded by Tex Ritter and Al Morgan rather than gender-adjusting them - was released by EMI as HMV#9846 with "Hop Scotch Polka" as the flip.

La Fiebre

The musical group La Fiebre has become one of Latin Music’s most influential bands standing with other major Tex-Mex bands such as La Mafia and La Sombra, paving the way for future Tejano bands.

Liberty Grooves

On New Year's Eve 1992–93, the shop hosted a hip hop jam featuring Lil Rodney Cee from the film Wildstyle as well as a host of UK rap crews including Def Tex, Lords of Rap and Braintax.

Mathscape

mathscape is a software system created by Michael P. Barnett of Princeton University that enables the creation of TeX typeset documents (including graphics) and formulae from Mathematica workbooks, removing the need for manual conversion and thus creating a bridge between symbolic computation and computer composition.

Michael Chance Band

With the help of veteran soul producer Rena Sinakin, Michael Chance recorded early song demos with such laudable talents as Robert Martin (Orleans, Frank Zappa, Etta James), Wayne "Tex" Gabriel (of John Lennon and Elephant's Memory), Steve "Muruga" Booker (of the Parliament-Funkadelic), Steve Wise (Stevie Wonder's protégé), and Bruce Hawes, a pioneer of The Sound of Philadelphia.

Nikolas Schreck

According to Schreck, the murders of Sharon Tate and the others actually resulted from conventional underworld rivalries between drug dealer associates Charles Watson and Jay Sebring, who Schreck contends was linked to the Mafia.

PdfTeX

The computer program pdfTeX is an extension of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, and was originally written and developed into a publicly usable product by Hàn Thế Thành as a part of the work for his PhD thesis at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

T. Tex Edwards

T. Tex Edwards came to prominence as the lead vocalist of Dallas area punk band The Nervebreakers.

Tex Atomic's Big Bot Battles

Tex Atomic's Big Bot Battles is a third person shooter for the PC developed by Monolith Productions and published by RealNetworks.

Tex Fletcher

Tex hit the trail running in 1934 as he landed the role of Cowboy Answer Man on WWOR, New Jersey, at the height of singing cowboy craze, replacing close friend and cowboy star, Tex Ritter (he remained with WWOR for more than 20 years, going off the air in 1957).

Tex La Homa

In 2010 Tex La Homa collaborates with the Italian band Sparkle in Grey for a split release on Grey Sparkle, Black Fading and Musica di Un Certo Livello.

Tex Maule

Hamilton Prieleaux Bee Maule, commonly known as Tex Maule (May 19, 1915 in Ojus, Florida — May 16, 1981) was the lead American football writer for Sports Illustrated in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Tex Murphy: Overseer

The game continues the Tex Murphy tradition of using some well-known actors to portray major characters, such as Michael York, Henry Darrow, Richard Norton, Joe Estevez, and Clint Howard.

Tex Willer

Tex Willer is the main fictional character of the Italian comics series Tex, created by writer Gian Luigi Bonelli and illustrator Aurelio Galleppini, and first published in Italy on 30 September 1948.

Toni Rose

During their reign, there was an unrecorded title change; Susan "Tex" Green and Parker won the title from Christanello and Rose in November 1971 in Hawaii, but they regained it in February 1972 in Hong Kong.

During this time, she also wrestled against Susan "Tex" Green in Leroy McGuirk's promotion.

U/Tex Wranglers

After the first conference of the 1977 season, coach Narciso Bernardo, who replaced Caloy Loyzaga, at the start of the season when Loyzaga moved to Tanduay Distillers, decided to quit, Tommy Manotoc, who was then team manager, was assigned to handle the head coaching job, the first breakthrough came in the second conference when U/Tex became the second team after Mariwasa Honda to enter the Finals.